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An alphabetical listing of names beginning with the letters T, U and V which have been in RECENT DEATHS since we started that feature. Names remain in RECENT DEATHS for two months, based on date of death.
After two months, they are moved here in the DEATHS ARCHIVES. For a listing of people who have died less than two months ago, visit RECENT DEATHS.

John Milton Tassie - November 25, 2002 (86) Former president and chief executive of Lenox
Walter Taussig - July 31, 2003 (95) Conductor and vocal coach
H. A. Taylor - May 21, 2004 (63) Circuit judge in Jefferson County, Arkansas
LaVerne H. "Kip" Taylor - July 17, 2002 (94) Former Oregon State head football coach
Vic Taylor - June 23, 2003 (56) [Cardiac arrest] Singer
Edward Teller - September 9, 2003 (95) Physicist known as "Father of the H-bomb." Senior research fellow at the Hoover Institute. Former physics professor at George Washington University and the University of Chicago. Former member of the Manhattan Project, and former director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Richard Telles - August 24, 2003 (81) [Cancer] Trustee with the El Paso Independent School District is El Paso, Texas
Guillermo "Willie" Terrazas - August 20, 2003 (87) Founder of Leo's Mexican Restaurants in El Paso, Texas
Normie Thomas Jr. - September 8, 2003 (70) Race horse trainer and former director of the Oklahoma Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association
J. Lee Thompson - August 30, 2002 (88) Movie director
John Phillip Thompson - January 28, 2003 (77) [Brain cancer] Former president, chief executive officer and chairman of 7-Eleven
Mildred Jean Thompson - September 1, 2003 (68) [Cancer] Artist
Sandra Thompson - August 9, 2002 (54) Associates Editor of the Las Vegas Sun
Tommy Thompson - January 24, 2003 (65) [Complications from dementia] Co-founder of the band Red Clay Ramblers
Bobby Thomson - July 24, 2003 (50) [Throat cancer] Tour manager for Ozzy Osbourne
William Henry "Paddy" Thornberry - July 21, 2002 (76) Former UPI sports editor and former editor of the New York Times News Service
Strom Thurmond - June 26, 2003 (100) Former United States senator
Chang-Lin Tien - October 29, 2002 (67) Former chancellor of the University of California-Berkeley
Edith Tiger - October 22, 2002 (83) Former director of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
Jack Tighe - August 1, 2002 (88) Former minor league and major league manager in the Detroit Tigers organization
Floyd Tillman - August 22, 2003 (88) [Leukemia] Songwriter, singer and guitar player
Gaynell "Gus" Tinsley - July 24, 2002 (87) Former NFL Chicago Cardinals football player and former LSU college football coach
Ken Tobey - December 22, 2002 (85) Actor
Charles Hunt "Dick" Todd - November 6, 2002 (96) Former senator and representative in the state of Washington
Garfield Todd - October 13, 2002 (93) Former prime minister of Southern Rhodesia
David Towell - June 11, 2003 (66) Former U.S. congressman from Nevada
Ed Townsend - August 13, 2003 (74) [Heart failure] Songwriter and producer. Wrote songs for Nat "King" Cole, Etta James and Marvin Gaye
Steve Tracy - September 3, 2003 (45) [Cancer] Sports editor of the Denton Record-Chronicle, in Denton, Texas
William Tremblay - October 1, 2002 (74) Former associate editor and former assistant managing editor of The Detroit News
Henry "Hank" Trewhitt - January 23, 2003 (75) Journalist and journalism professor at the University of New Mexico
Israel "Ike" Tribble Jr. - June 21, 2003 (61) [Complications from a liver transplant] Tampa Bay, Florida civil rights leader
Leopoldo Trieste - January 26, 2003 (85) [Heart attack] Actor
Mel Triplett - July 25, 2002 (71) Former New York Giants and Minnesota Vikings football player
C. Robertson Trowbridge - September 8, 2003 (71) [Complications related bo lung blood clot] Chairman of Yankee Publishing, former member of the New Hampshire House and former member of the New Hampshire state senate
David Truman - August 28, 2003 (90) Former dean at Columbia University in New York
Hans Peter Tschudi - September 29, 2002 (88) Former president of Switzerland and former Swiss interior minister
Rosalyn Tureck - July 17, 2003 (88) Pianist
Thomas Bourne Turner - September 22, 2002 (100) Former dean of The John Hopkins School of Medicine
Johnny Unitas - September 11, 2002 (69) Former Baltimore Colts quarterback
Leon Uris - June 21, 2003 (78) Writer. Wrote Exodus
Cary Van Etten - August 26, 2003 [Heart attack] Sheriff of Butte County, Idaho
Robert Van Scoyk - August 23, 2002 (74) Television writer and producer
Kirk Varnedoe - August 14, 2003 (57) [Colon cancer] Former chief curator of New York's Museum of Modern Art's department of painting and sculpture
Ruth L. Swanson Venn - January 27, 2003 (93) Co-founder and former president of Archway Cookie Company
Don Vesco - December 16, 2002 (63) [Prostate cancer] Motorcycle and car land-speed record holder
Joseph Vigil - July 27, 2003 (49) [Car crash] Lead superintendent of Albuquerque, New Mexico schools
Walter Villa - June 18, 2002 (58) Motorcycle racer